Sunday afternoon the kids and I (Randy was making dinner) got a little crafty. Whitney could hardly contain her excitement about the project. I really should make an effort to do more projects with her, I just never think of it. Landon found it hard to maneuver with his cast and ended up getting as much paint on the table as he did on the cubes.
Here are our finished ornaments, can you guess which one involves Whitney's influence? I'm still trying to make peace with it because it just doesn't go with my color scheme at all. I chose pictures from our trip to Illinois, the kids soccer season and a couple family self-portraits. I get the photos printed in wallet size in order to have them be small enough to fit on the cubes.
I used to use Mod Podge all the time and found it a sticky mess, but after not using it in ages I was a complete spazz. I'm sure these cubes have my gluey fingerprints fossilized on them forever.
I usually just write the year on the bottom of the cubes, but this year we used some stickers (again Whitney's excitement was overflowing) and I love the results.
Whitney put together a gift for me and Randy yesterday after I pointed out that there were NO gifts for me under the tree. She did everything herself and was so excited about it. She says I'm going to love it.
**Do you do anything with your photos from the past year?
Are you a glue spazz?
Would a baby blue ornament have thrown you too?**
Are you a glue spazz?
Would a baby blue ornament have thrown you too?**
Comment Window Tidbit: Was yesterday's post too lame to comment on or what? I thought you'd all be happy for the quick read and enjoyable questions, but alas only 9 of you decided to comment. I can take a hint.
15 comments:
I have no problem with Whitney's light blue ornament! (Witness my banner and color scheme for December...)
I wondered how Landon was faring crafting with his cast! And I love the photo of Whitney holding all the ornaments, so cute.
I can't believe it hasn't even been a full year since I've been blogging...I guess I never knew about your photo ornament tradition. I adore those! I'm a bit of a craft dork, so forgive me for asking...where do you buy the cubes? Are they wood or acrylic?
That would be so much fun to open up the ornament box each year and see the smiles from Christmases past...
Regarding the "no gifts for mom" under the tree thing...my issue is always that no one in my family thinks to put anything in my stocking...there's just no the element of surprise when I have to go out and buy my own stocking stuffers...I hint around to Brian every year but he doesn't seem to be catching on...
P.S.--I'm laughing about Whitney throwing off your color scheme...
I totally micro-managed a certain paper chain that the kids made last year...I was sooooo not having black or yellow links mixed in with the rest of the colors. My mom was here visiting and she was so disgusted with me that I wouldn't just let the kid do their own thing...
Whitney's blue confirms it. She is the snow queen.
I think your ornaments is a great tradition. Combined with Randy fixing Sunday dinner, you have quite a tradition going. (I've never thought of doing wallet size. Next time . . . next time. We did "cousins" blocks one year at a reunion. Quite a few people got cut out :)
I want to copy this idea, but I'm intimidated. I don't have stickers! Where do you get the wood blocks? Do you print the wallet-sized photos at Costco?
I realllly want to do these for myself as well as for gifts.
Do you think Randy would make our dinner????
And regarding your comment blurb: I don't feel any pity about your 9 comments. I've only been getting 1 or 2 (thanks to you being 1 every day). Measly!
HOw in the world do you make comments on the blurb part? I have never seen where to even do that. Lesson please!
I put my photos on my blog isn't that good enough?
I hate using glue but will if I have to.
No, the blue wouldn't bother me. Our tree is such a hodge podge of ornaments that nothing would stand out. I don't have one of those fancy perfectly decorated trees. My ornaments consist of everything the kids have made.
You are a really great mom!!! What fun tangible memories.
Mod Podge is not for the faint of heart.
But your photo ornaments are adorable!
Our tree theme is mix and match, so colors don't really throw me off. Variety is the spice of life, right?
(But I can see how if you have a set theme an *off* color could throw you for a loop.)
I love your ornament crafts...what a great way to commemorate each year...
i am so making these. any tips for printing the photos at that size.
What a great activity! I love how the ornaments turned out! The light blue is perfect--so now! But don't worry, someday you'll have the joy of giving that ornament to Whitney for her own tree, and then maybe it will throw off her entire color scheme. Revenge of the mom, right? ;)
I really want to do those ornaments again! Why didn't you tell me? I thought this was a Girls Craft day or something. Cmon, where's the love?
i loved it when we did this ornament project back in 2003(?). I have been meaning to do it again for years, I still have blocks waiting to be painting.
I hope you keep it up. It will be fun to have a tree full of them in 10 years.
Sometimes the children don't understand that even though they're young and precious and pure it ISN'T ALWAYS ABOUT THEM and you've already given them so much and there are so few things that you can control anymore and you give, and give, and give why couldn't they just LEAVE YOUR COLOR SCHEME ALONE!!!
My niece walks around my sister's house ripping down curtains and knocking framed paintings off the walls. Do children hate decor?
Or maybe they're just trying to drive us all crazy?
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I want to make photo blocks. Not surprising. As soon as you post a project I always think, 'Cool, and now I will copy that.'
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